About Vardhamana Mahavira:

• The most famous thinker of the Jainas was the Vardhamana Mahavira.
• He was a kshatriya prince of the Lichchhavis, a group that was part of the Vajji sangha.
• At the age of thirty, he left home and went to live in a forest.
• For twelve years he led a hard and lonely life, at the end of which he attained enlightenment.